A Copernican View of the Turntable System

Banquo

I found those AT 616 footers give you a lot of flexibility for high your pod can be and they also make fine leveling of the sp10 very easy.

How do you like the freedom you have now to not only use any arm you want but you can pretty much place it anywhere you want on the platform. :^)

Am curious as to what the approximate cost was for the EPA Pod. It is really nice.

Should have my 2nd sp10 up and running within the next couple weeks in the city.

Nikola did you find the room to set up your SP10.

Their footprint is very small with a pod which makes them ideal regarding space.

Cheers Chris

Nandric,
These 'footers' are of course different to my solution with the spikes.
Both Chris and Banquo are using them so they must be fine.
My concern would be if you could lean on the edges of the turntable and induce movement (ie 'rocking')........that would not be a good thing from the Copernican point of view?

Banquo, Good to know that you finally found peace with Bill Thalmann. I don't know how you (and others) are managing to use more than one outboard pod with the SP10. The square escutcheon that surrounds the platter really interdicts the use of more than one tonearm, which must be placed alongside the right-hand edge of the square, which allows a short enough distance to the spindle to permit alignment of a 9- or 10-inch arm. From all other sides, perhaps only a 12-inch arm can be aligned. But obviously you are making it work, somehow. The Denon tt's present no problem in this regard.
Nandric, Removing the bottom of the SP10 chassis would be a big mistake, IMO. It would reduce structural integrity of the whole, leave the on-board electronics open to the elements, and eliminate any way to provide a solid mount for the tt.

Hi Henry - all I do with the sp10 is put a record on it - use my choice of clamp depending on the record and hit start. I never lean on it. Raul suggested the 616's originally I think?

Those 616's are very hard to find were not a North American product. I got mine from a fluke - someone from Holland responded to a wanted ad I had placed.

My second sp10 will be using spikes. IMO as long as the platform you are using is level and isolated well, then any good manufacturer footers would work depending on your application.

Once you have reached this level - what became more important to me was how high the footers needed to be - if they were fixed or adjustable - this all helped to determine how high tall the pod would end up being and how much adjustability needed to be put into the threaded spikes.

Nikola - I agree with what Lew said about the sp10 and its guts kinda of just hanging there with cover removed. I also know when not to mess with a good thing when I hear it. The same "abstract thinking" would apply to Henry's JVC ?

Lew - My site has pictures of multiple arms being used as well as I believe Banquo's and Dgob's sites.

Cheers Chris

Dear Chris, This hobby is not only irrational but it also
make you greedy. I at last got a perfect SP 10 mk2 with all capacitors renewed but have no idea what to do with it.
Like those MM carts: buy now ,fast and as many as possible
and think or test later.Then this ebay 'syndrome' is realy
addictive. I am not able at the moment to resist but reduced my search to 'only' German ebay and ebay.com. The English have actualy nothing to offer(qua MM carts). BTW
I am very reluctant to remove my Kuzma and put the SP-10 instead.

Dear Lew, Thanks for the worning . I somehow thought that Raul recommended removal of the cover in casu.

Dear Halcro, I 'inspected' your system and have seen that
your DDTT is an Denon(?). Are we tolking about different animals? There is no place, so to speak, for the spikes on the underside of the SP-10. Or so I thought.

Regards,